Re: [gnome-flashback] gnome-panel and autoreconf

[Alberts Muktupāvels <alberts muktupavels gmail com>]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57 ubuntu com> wrote:

On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 10:55 AM, Alberts Muktupāvels
<alberts muktupavels gmail com> wrote:
>> As we speak about dependencies, can you please also commit my patch
>> from https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722315 ?
>
> I will if you can confirm that upstream gnome-screensaver is auto-started.
> It is not installing auto-start file in /etc/xdg/autostart, but in its
> applications .desktop file has line X-GNOME-Autostart-Phase=Application.
> After some testing seems that it is auto-started. Can you confirm that?

Just checked again: the latest release has autostart file, but it has
wrong session name (fallback vs flashback).

In git snapshot even that is deleted, since
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-screensaver/commit/?id=1940dc6bc8ad5ee2c029714efb1276c05ca80bd4.

However, my point was if we really need to (auto)start
gnome-screensaver. How many people actually use it?

I don't know how many people use it. But i don't think that is good idea to leave users by default without screensaver. It is used to lock screen.

It does not hurt if user can uninstall it and use alternative screen-saver. That is reason why I wrote it should be safe to remove it from required components.

In case of ubuntu I suggested to move from depends to recommends. As in that case it is still installed by default, but allows user to remove it.

I guess gnome-screensaver is not used in gnome-shell, right? We could ask to re-add autostart file.

What others think about this? Should we remove screensaver from required components? Sebastian? Philipp?